Deployment–Minor PDT update 2.5.2502 available

This release corrects a bug in the Windows Azure Pack configuration, and updates the download for SharePoint 2010 Foundation to SP2 since the original release is no longer available.

Download here.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  As I looked into it, I see there is a <delay> within <autostart> so I'm trying an incremental value for each subsequent VM.  So, I'm letting the DC and 1st VM auto start immediately.  After that the next VM has an autostart delay of 100 seconds, the next VM 200 seconds, etc. We'll see if this helps.

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  After a bit of debugging I have discovered the root cause of the issue.  First, I'm creating a totally isolated environment (e.g. internal network within HyperV).  I mistakenly thought that when a domain was being created that the user contained within JoinDomain would be created as the domain admin.  When a domain is being created the administrator of the machine when promoted becomes the only domain admin.  After realizing that I was able to make substantial progress. After my experience, I have some suggestions:

• If domain join fails, error out and don't erase the install files... when I was trying to debug, I got to the VM and saw  it was not joined, but didn't know why.  Only after digging around on the DC did I realize it was related to the  domain join ID.
• Would be nice if the VMCreator would create the user specified within "JoinDomain" if a new domain is being  created ... this would enable something other than the administrator used to configure the domain being the only  domain Admin.
• Would be nice if Certificate Error on Service Provider contained some information as to what it was looking for...  perhaps a URL reference to setup/config section on TechNet/MSDN
• Would be nice to be able to specify multiple Virtual Network cards for the domain controller being created... the  idea would be to have one connect to outside world and the other be used for internal w/setup.
• Would be nice to pull all information from the various Blog posts into a document which is included with the PDT  package.
• Would be nice to have a way put the installable files on a VHD, unmounts the vhd once VM creator is completed  and then in the installer instance running on the new Domain Controller - mount the VHD... that way the same  installable files could be used (assumption is that the initial install is kicked off from same server which has DC  VHD). Although I had to work through some intricacies, I found PDT to be extremely useful. Thanks for a great tool! Steve Keller

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Davey, Thanks for the insight.  I actually found that the downloader didn't apply the service pack to the RTM image so my SQL Server was at RTM and the VMCreator was looking for SP1 version level.  I manually Slip Streamed the SP image into the directory and that resolved the issue. As for the other issue - the DC is up and running and it is waiting at:            Write-Host "Waiting for $VMName"            While (!(Get-RegValue -Server $VMName -Value `$VMName)) {Start-Sleep 1} I should be able to determine if there is a timing issue by temporarily removing the VM auto-start flag from the VMCreator script.  Then manually start each VM via HyperV manager. BTW... I'm doing this at work on a system with 48G of memory and about 1/2 TB of free diskspace. Regards, Steve

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
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• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Hi Rob.  It seems that all the download links are broken for the R2 stuff again. Now they take you to page that prompts you to select the preview for download but not the product. Davey

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  Rob, Thank you for the changes...worked like a charm! $GreatWork = PDT is an invaluable tool Thanks, Jim

• Anonymous
  September 16, 2013
  i need to downlaod and installtion process for

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2013
  Rob, PDT is great, unfortunately my deployment keeps getting stuck... I'm deploying AD, the DC is created, up and running but waiting on RD01.... I logged onto RD01 and it is never getting into the domain. I was able to manually log onto RD01, and join the domain so the DC is up and the HyperV network adapter configured properly. NOTE: This is with 2012 R2 / SC 2012 R2 preview bits. I also tried with 2012 SP1, but ran into error when using VMCreator... apparently SQL Server 2008 R2 is a pre-req and it is saying the version that was downloaded is not the right version. Thanks,